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Freedom of Will: Ontology

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In the sense of ontology, freedom of will refers to the question of whether there is a cause for will. If there is a cause for will, the will is determined, or the will is free. So, freedom here means freedom in the sense opposite of necessity. The freedom of will in ontology involves the basic issues of philosophy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Hegel [1], p. 292.

  2. 2.

    See [2], p. 223.

  3. 3.

    See [2], p. 224.

  4. 4.

    In the sense corresponding to determinism, libertarianism is often referred to as indeterminism. This book uniformly adopts libertarianism for clarity.

  5. 5.

    See [3], pp. 212–213.

  6. 6.

    See [4], p. 64.

  7. 7.

    See [5], p. 20.

  8. 8.

    See [6], p. 3.

  9. 9.

    See [7], p. 93.

  10. 10.

    See [8], p. 36.

  11. 11.

    See [9], p. 135.

  12. 12.

    See [9], pp. 85 and 86.

  13. 13.

    See [10], p. 97.

  14. 14.

    See [3], p. 245.

  15. 15.

    See [11], p. 32.

  16. 16.

    See [12], pp. 167–168.

  17. 17.

    See [13], p. 66.

  18. 18.

    See [3], p. 165.

  19. 19.

    See [14], pp. 383–384.

  20. 20.

    See [12], pp. 122–123.

  21. 21.

    See [15], p. 23.

  22. 22.

    See [16], p. 52.

  23. 23.

    See [17], pp. 389–390.

  24. 24.

    See [18], pp. 123–124.

  25. 25.

    See [19], p. 43.

  26. 26.

    See [20], p. 69.

  27. 27.

    See [2], p. 532.

  28. 28.

    See [2], pp. 732–733.

  29. 29.

    See [21], p. 35.

  30. 30.

    See [22], pp. 56–57.

  31. 31.

    See [7], pp. 191–192.

  32. 32.

    See [23], p. 105.

  33. 33.

    See [23], p. 322.

  34. 34.

    See [23], p. 323.

  35. 35.

    See [14], p. 455.

  36. 36.

    See [14], pp. 455–456.

  37. 37.

    See [24], p. 17.

  38. 38.

    Leibniz [25], p. 167.

  39. 39.

    See [2], p. 697.

  40. 40.

    Chen [26], p. 7.

  41. 41.

    See [14], pp. 324–325.

  42. 42.

    See [14], pp. 382 and 383.

  43. 43.

    See [27], p. 126.

  44. 44.

    See [28], p. 124.

  45. 45.

    See [27], p. 139.

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Chen, X. (2023). Freedom of Will: Ontology. In: Humanistic Foundation of Criminal Law. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9764-8_5

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